On Sep. 10, MLS announced that the company will spend RMB$ 180 million (US$ 278.2 million) to purchase stock in Kaistar Lighting with private fund, acquiring 10.91% of Kaistar’s shares. Kaistar Lighting is a joint venture ...
As an innovative response to meet the increasing demands (higher heat/brightness characteristics) of cutting-edge LED technologies, Shin-Etsu Silicones of America (SESA: A U.S. subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd., Japan) has recently ...
Tags: Shin Etsu Silicone, LIMS Material, Exterior LED Lighting Application
Everlight Chairman Robert Yeh recently refuted market rumors in Taiwan claiming the company’s decision to use Chinese manufacturers LED chips in its products has impacted Epistar’s revenue performance, according to a UDN report. ...
Tags: Everlight, Epistar, LED chip supplier
LED lighting application is gradually maturing. In order to continue lowering costs for LED lighting products, there is a growing trend of manufacturers adopting High Voltage (HV) LEDs to simplify the power supply design. A large chunk of ...
Tags: HV LEDs, LED Lighting
Vertically integrated Taiwanese LED manufacturer Lextar December revenue reached NT $1.1 billion (US $36.6 million), a decline of 5.8 percent from November but growth of 51.9 percent compared with December 2012. Revenue for 4Q13 was NT ...
Tags: LED manufacturer, LED application
cJapanese manufacturers are way ahead of competition in LED lighting patent applications. Nine Japanese companies have become major patentee in the LED industry, with Samsung as the sole Korean patent holder. Japanese companies have ...
Tags: LED Industry, Patent Battles
For the past three years, Seoul Semiconductor's main product had been the mid-powered 5630. However, the company has recently turned its attention towards 3030 LED in 2013, to compete with Nichia's better price/performance (P/P) 767 series ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Lights, Lighting, LED
Patent wars between Japanese LED manufacturer Nichia and Taiwanese manufacturer Everlight have intensified over the last two to three years. Last month, Katsuyuki Akutagawa, General Manager of Legal Affairs and Intellectual Properties at ...
Tags: Nichia, Everlight Everlight
As LED lighting application matures, HVLED technology developed by Taiwanese LED manufacturer Epistar is showing fruits of success. The smaller sized HVLED has better heat dissipation and advantageous over-drive capabilities that can lower ...
The maturing of the LED lighting application market has not only seen LED manufacturers aggressively increasing LED luminosity, but also gradually placing more and more attention on the importance in color rendering performance for LED ...
Tags: LED Color Rendering, Lighting
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) recently published a notification to “increase efforts to fulfill 2013 carbon emission reduction target,” according to a report by Guangming Daily. The notice ...
International semiconductor industry show SEMICON Taiwan will open on September 4th 2013. With LED lighting application development more mature than ever before, intelligent lighting, high energy efficient lighting and household lighting ...
Tags: semiconductor, LED, taiwan, LED lighting
Some of Taiwan-based LED chip manufacturers have extended to LED packaging, offering solutions that EMS players can directly turn into lighting products, according to industry sources. The manufacturers are expanding their business to ...
Some of Taiwan-based LED chip makers have extended to packaging, offering solutions that EMS players can directly turn into lighting products, according to industry sources. The makers are revisig their business amid fast growing demand ...
Tags: LED chip, LED lighting, Packaging
Recently, LED street lighting project completed by Kingsun and Yamada Denki lit up officially in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The project includes seven roads'LED street lights retrofit and is the first time to apply LED street lighting - in ...